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Steampunk and German lieder, a romantic form of song, don’t seem like they’d go well together, but Luminous Thread Productions likes to combine the unexpected. Nuptials for the Dead, which opens the company’s 2012-13 season, titled Dreampunk, gives German art songs a new life in this story of a woman who wants to dedicate her life to singing but is pressured by society to get married.
“For centuries, women have struggled to balance artistic expression with the demands of family and society,” says Mary Lin, Luminous co-founder and art director. “All artists – but especially performers – race against time; there are only so many hours in a life for the outer world and the inner.”
Music director Andrew Adams compiled music by Franz Schubert, Clara and Robert Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn and Gustav Mahler to tell the story conceptualized by Lin. They’re accompanied by extravagant visuals.
Nuptials premieres at 3 p.m. today at the Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street. Tickets, $15, are available at www.eventbrite.com. There will be two other showings — one on November 1 at the Oriental Theater, and another on November 11 at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder. For more information, go to luminousthread.com.
Sun., Oct. 28; Thu., Nov. 1; Sun., Nov. 11, 2012
